I love, love, LOVE the idea of WAC. This is what students need to be doing. We need to be teaching them that writing is not just something they do in English class; it is something we do every day, in every aspect of life. We write reports, emails, letters, notes, articles, papers for schools...wall posts on Facebook.
As for the the other theories, I think a nice combination of all of them is probably of best. In my opinion, there has to be structure and grammar and rules. There also has to be a reason for writing, but writing is largely personal. It's a release. All these approaches to teaching writing have merit, and I will probably take a piece of each one and implement it into my classroom.
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